AI agents are the new insider threat: Is your SaaS stack ready?

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Imagine hiring someone who skips the interview, never signs a non-disclosure agreement, and walks in on day one with a master key to every system in the building. No manager would approve that hire. Yet, that is exactly what is happening inside enterprise SaaS stacks right now, except the new hire is not human. AI agents (or non-human identities) have quietly moved from answering questions to logging into systems, triggering workflows, and completing tasks with barely a glance from a human. By the end of 2026, they will sit inside 40 percent of enterprise software, up from under 5 percent a year earlier, according to McKinsey. Adoption is outrunning oversight, and the gap is widening fast.

The employee nobody onboarded

Every enterprise has a well-worn playbook for managing people like background checks, role-based access, exit interviews that kill every login on the way out. None of it was built for...

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